Posted on 01/28/2017 5:39:25 PM PST by MarvinStinson
A pro-immigrant program was expanded under President Obama that paid U.S. firms $2.7 billion to hire 180,000 foreign "students," jobs that likely otherwise would have gone to Americans, according to a new report.
The so-called "Optional Practical Training" was supposedly set up for foreign students but actually included no training and put college graduates in the high-paying jobs for three years.
The Center for Immigration Studies, which on Friday urged President Trump to stop the program, estimated that the jobs paid $60,000, suggesting a total of $11 billion in annual wages lost to American workers, over $32 billion over three years. In his Inaugural Address, Trump advocated an "America First" theme.
The Center said the program, also used under former President George W. Bush, paid companies $10,000-$15,000 to hire the foreigner college grads for three years.
"That is a prize worthy of special attention. More than 180,000 good jobs," said the Center, adding:
"The best part of OPT for the foreign alums — and a devastating factor to U.S. resident college grads (both citizens and green card holders) — is that employers are given a $10,000-$15,000 bonus for hiring an alien rather than an American with the same salary.
"This is hard to believe, but true; recent administrations have waved a magic wand over the foreign grads and called them 'students' so that the usual payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare) do not apply to either their employers or to the students.
"So the employer, faced with two equally qualified candidates for, say, a $60,000 a year job (for three years), each candidate being willing to work for that salary, has his choice. If he hires the alien the total payroll costs for three years will be $180,000; if he hires the citizen alternative, the employer will pay $193,770. The higher the salary, the bigger the bonus to the employer hiring the alien."
The author of the report, immigration expert and former Labor Department official David North, called on Trump to end the program.
180,000 extra reasons to despise the wun and fellow travelers in the dim-com party.
Amazing.
But Americans got EBT and could stay home with their families
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This program is nothing more than fraud on the part of those involved.
What is so very sad here is that over half of the people in this country voted this Clown into office......TWICE!
NOW DON’T YOU FOLKS feel like an all-day-Loli-Pop!
Still living in your MA-MA’s basement........??? YOU Earned IT!
My son trained 30 people from India....and then they let my son go...
I have personally seen this program in action. It needs to be ended and the visas need to be terminated immediately. Each one of those jobs was taken from a qualified American and given to a foreigner who worked for below typical market salary. It is no short of treason to our citizens, IMHO.
That is sickening.
Used by Bush and expanded by Obama. And people wonder why Trump rose to become president? Republican and Democrat politicians alike are generally two sides of the same coin.
Insanity
... and it has been par for the course, for Muslims to lie about their age ... even to the point of absurdity.
Besides these jobs I really wonder how many of these were educated under US scholarships. I work with foreigners in the IT world who had their whole education paid for by state universities.
Indeed, these clowns complaining of having no jobs after doing liberal studies should look at this form of corporate welfare expanded under aobama. WTF snow flakes!
This is indentured servitude that replaces Americans with foreigners; no wonder our birthrate and (as a consequence) home sales to young people are so low...
That’s a disgrace (and not new); the firms dangle the Americans’ severance as incentive to train those taking their jobs.
For all of the complaints about young Americans today, they have watched this unfold and learned quickly. They tend to avoid the commitments of families and home ownership, and just assume their employers will screw them at the first chance.
In the developed world, one of the worse economic situations anyone can find themselves in is to be a a young, white male living in the USA. The deck is stacked against them.
In my area Americans can’t get jobs even pumping gas because foreigners (including many students) have all of those jobs.
When companies need results they’ll hire white guys; if they function like a government agency or non-profit they can hire others to “play work”...
We need a white Martin Luther King.
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